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Using Public Health Legal Counsel Effectively: Beliefs, Barriers and Opportunities for Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Nancy Kaufman ,
Susan Allan  and
Jennifer Ibrahim
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Laws, ordinances, regulations, and executive orders create the powers and duties of public health agencies and modify the complex community conditions that affect health. Appropriately trained legal counsel serving as legal advisors on the health officer's team facilitate clear understanding of the legal basis for public health interventions and access to legal tools for carrying them out.

Legal counsel serve public health agencies via different organizational arrangements — e.g., internal staff counsel, external counsel from the state attorney general's (AG) office, state health department, county or city, or private counsel under contract, or in combination. As of 2011, most state health departments (63%) employ their own counsel, and 56% use AG counsel, while 17% contract with independent attorneys; most local health departments (66%) work with attorneys and legal staff assigned by local government, by the state health agency (23%), or contract with outside attorneys and legal staff (15%).

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue S1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 61 - 64
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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